Last week, xwMOOC ran the first Software Carpentry workshop in Seoul. The workshop delivered not only an introduction to Unix Shell, Git and GitHub, Python and SQL but also computer science unplugged, rur-ple, python for informatics and cloud basics. Listening to attendees feedback, attendees concerns such as software business, all about what start-ups should know, how software business environment looks like and so on are provided during three days workshops.

The Software Carpentry Foundation's Steering Committee has voted to add a Contributor Covenant to our lessons and other repositories. Like the Code of Conduct for our workshops, the Contributor Covenant's aim is to ensure that participation in Software Carpentry is a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, or religion.

Should we remove old material when adding new in order to keep the lessons manageable? Should people have to teach the standard material a couple of times before introducing their own? Please contribute your ideas.

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Great R cheat sheets available at RStudio include sheets for dplyr, tidyr, Shiny, and R Markdown.